Senegal attained 106-percent coverage for children 0-5 years old in the second round of a polio vaccination campaign that ended on 4 December, a source at the World Health Organisation office in Dakar told IRIN on Thursday.
He said some 1.9 million children were vaccinated against polio and with vitamin A, more than the 1.8 million who had been targeted.
The same number of children were targeted in the first round, from 4-5 November, when 1.94 million were vaccinated.
An evaluation of the nationwide vaccination programme is now underway, the source said.
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